The Best Comic of the Week:
Two Moons #1 – I’ve been looking forward to this comic since I saw it in Previews. John Arcudi is writing a horror series set in the US Civil War. That, with some pages of Valerio Giangiordano’s art, was enough to guarantee the preorder. This issue introduces the main character, Two Moons, a young Pawnee man who was raised by a white family, and who is fighting on the side of the Union in the war. He’s plagued with visions he doesn’t understand, and things take a very dark turn during a small skirmish. I love historical fiction grounded in a strong understanding of history, and it looks like that’s what Arcudi is bringing to the table. This is a dark book, and with the possible exception of Brian Azzarello’s short-lived Loveless, is something I’ve never quite seen in comics before (we are a long way from the Haunted Tank era of war comics). I’m excited to see where this book leads, and I love Giangiordano’s detailed and c